Grass-carrying attachment for lawn-mowers



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ROSIVELL F. NEAL-'SE AND .TOI-IN GLENNON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GRASS-CARRYING ATTACHMENT FOR LAWN-iVi0VVERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,440, dated March 1'7, 1891.

Application filed October 1'7, 1890, Serial No. 368,487. (No model.)

To a/ZZ luf/.0712, it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROSWELL F. KRAUSE and JOHN GLENNON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, county of Cook, and- State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Grass-Carrying Attach ments forLawn-iowers, of which the following is a specification, reference bcing had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in which- Figure I is a side. elevation of a lawn mower with our grass-carrying devices attached thereto. Fig. II is a top or plan view of Fig. I. Fig. III is a side view of a sup` porting standard enlarged and removed. Fig. IV is an elevation. of an end portion of the adjustable sack-holder three-fourths of full size. Fig. Y is a cross-section of the sackholder and ground-roller d, showing the sackholder adjusted above the top of the roller.

This invention relates to such construction of grass-carrying attachments for lawn-mowers that one size can be adjusted to all ordinary mowers.

'Ihe particular novelty and construction will be fully comprehended by the following detail description.

Yl5 is the cutter, A thc traveling wheels, F G the roller-attaching devices, a the roller, and C E the wood and iron portions of the pushing devices, of an ordinary well-known lawn-mower. In these kinds of mowers a nut II at each side of the mower is employed to clamp the adjustable segment-pieces G G to the segment-arm supports F F. These nuts and the bolts they turn on are employed as hereinafter stated. A light flexible bail X, of suitable metal, is at its middle portion bent in a semieircular form or in substantially an easy curve, and its forward ends bent down, as shown at Fig. I, and by means of holes through them are secured to the segments F G bythe nuts and bolts I-I. The scmicircular portion of tne bail is secured to the wood portion C of the pushing devices by means of an ordinary clampin g-bolt l) or other suitable means.

rIo each side of the bail X by means of a bolt and nut is secured an adjustable sup-V porting-standard I K, which extends down to the back of the roller a, and they are secured by nuts and bolts .I to a two-part adjustable saclcholder L M. rlhe part L is shown to have a bolt and nut .I at one end to hold it to the supporting-standard I. The opposite end of the portion M is provided with a like bolt and nut, whereby when the nuts are turned on the bolts n, which project through the portion M, the two portions of the saclt-holder will be rigid and the bottom t* of the sack will be tightly clamped in place, as shown at Fig. V. The bolts n may be cast solid to either portion L M, or full-length bolts with heads and nuts'may be employed; but one portion must be slotted, as at R, with two or more slots to permit the portions to be adjusted longitudinally on each other to suit mowers which vary in length of roller a from sixteen to twenty inches,(and some varyrnore.) The sack is shown to be woven of fine wire and secured to the bail X and supportingstandards I in the ordinary manneroif securing woven wire to a framework, the bottom being secnred, as before stated, as at Fig. V. A fabric ot' flax or hemp may be employed instead ofthe wire-woven sack, especially when the fabric and attaching devices are to be shipped. In such case the fabric will not become permanently crimped, as wire is liable to so become. In any event when the attachment is made to be adjusted to different mowers the bottom r of thefabric should be made suiiiciently wide for the larger mower, and when it is attached to a smaller mower the front edge of thc bottom of the fabric is to be plaited within the holder L M, and the bail X will have its form changed either wider and shorter, as shown `by dotted lines f, or narrower and longer, as by dotted lines g, the metal being sufficiently flexible forthat purpose. Should the sacks all be made for .twenty-inch mowers, two plaits of one inch lap cach will bring the bottom of a sack to the proper tension lfor a sixteen-inch mower.

The particular reason for making the standards I vertically adjustable is that theholder L M may be brought far enough up baci; of the roller d to prevent the cut grass passing back into the sack from falling forward onto the roller. In case the holder is not elevated above the roller the grass falling thereon will be thrown forward onto the cutter. It will be understood that the grass cut by the mower is thrown over the roller a and into the sack,

bail at their upper portions and having their lower portions attached to the transverse holder, which is longitudinally adjustable, and a sack secured to the bail, standards, and holder, as specified and shown.

ROSVVELL F. KRAUSE. JOHN GLENNON.

and that the elevated holder prevents grass from leaving' the sack till a suitable load is secured.

We claim as our invention- 5 A grass-.carryingattaehment for lawn-mowers, consisting of the flexible bail X, bent. at its middle portion to bring its sides parallel,

the forward port-ions being bent down and se- Vitnesses: cured to the frame of the mower, side sup- ELLIS S. CHESBROUGH, Io porting-standards adjustablyoonneeted to the G. L. CHAPIN. 

